tech-resume.md

Work Experience

Quality Assurance Automation Engineer – Tern Systems

Winter 2023 – Spring 2024

• Developed test plans for the Aries weather and lighting system for small Icelandic airports (ISAVIA)
• Created, tested, and updated automated pyTest squish scripts for enroute air navigation software for ISAVIA ANS, in collaboration with a fellow QA and developer team
• Debugged the QA dev-ops pipeline with documetnation for Icelandic air navigation
• Attended client meetings in Icelandic
• Won an inhouse innovation prize December 2023 for automating documentation writing

Software Engineer – Rannís

Fall 2022 - Summer 2023

• Made the grant application portal for a grant
• Made the document system for a cultural grant

Project Manager – Language and Voice Lab, Reykjavik University

Summer 2022 - Fall 2022

• Organized and arranged meetings and events
• Resolved and helped software engineers troubleshoot abstract tasks

Project: Máltækni fyrir íslensku 2022

• Communicated with project collaborators and stakeholders
• Ensured that the final project milestones were met on time
• Managed intern for the Samrómur Icelandic as a second language ASR recipe and dataset creation

Project: CEF-Telecom National Language Technology Platform

• Analyzed and managed budgets for conference

Resources/Data Team Lead – Language and Voice Lab, Reykjavík University

Summer 2021 - Summer 2022

• Resolved and helped software engineers troubleshoot abstract tasks
• Organized and led bilingual Icelandic and English stand-up meetings

Project: CEF-Telecom National Language Technology Platform

Project: CEF-Telecom Microservices at your service

Project: Máltækni fyrir íslensku 2022

• Samrómur
• Spjallrómur
• Aligning large speech (ASR) corpora

Researcher – Language and Voice Lab, Reykjavik University

Spring 2017 - October 2022

• Bought screws for a stalled build of our computational server, resulting in 5+ research papers, and over 10 published datasets
• Developed the Samrómur Spjall Vo-IP chatting platform to collect conversational data
• Created the RÚV-DI speaker diarization dataset, recipe and models tailored for Icelandic broadcast news
• Integrated a Kaldi ASR with the Icelandic Parliament, Althing’s, transcription and document management system using Documentum’s DFC and DQL interfaces
• Created WebRICE, a web reader for Icelandic
• Manage workload for intern of the Málromur II - Eyra audio data collecting system
• Ran and updated the website for the Language and Voice Lab
• Contributed to the creation of an Icelandic language technology resource catalog
• Member of the Software Development Guidelines team
• Collected, cleaned, organized, and published speech datasets

Independent Web Developer

Fall 2014 - Present

• Implemented mobile friendly websites for clients via CMS
• Wrote SEO friendly website descriptions
• Quality checked and edited content
• Connected a React application to a backend Java API

Clients

• Kraftlyftingasamband Íslands
• Computers Corner
• Pearl Thai Cuisine
• Mayne Voice

Camp Coach – Girls in Robotics Leadership Camp

Summer 2013 - Summer 2014

• Taught robotics programming to middle schoolers
• Recruited assistant coaches and campers
• Fixed robotic hardware problems

Software Developer Intern – NetCE

Spring 2013 - Fall 2013

• Separated PHP files into PHP, XSL, and XML files to modularize code
• Set up multiple VMs for development database and web servers
• Created JavaScript scriplets to automate filling out routine web forms

IT Student Assistant - UCD Parking Division

Fall 2012 - Winter 2013

• Merged data from numerous relational databases into one application
• Designed and deployed a RESTful citation appeal system
• Implemented a dynamic permit table using JSON

Education

Háskóli Íslands B.A. Icelandic as a second language

• Pursuing: 2021-present

University of California, Davis - B.S. Computer Science

• Awarded: 2014

Skills

• Proficient in PHP, JavaScript, SQL, ReactJS, XML, Postgres, and Coldfusion
• Experience with Java, C++, Python, PyTest, Jquery, Kaldi, Bootstrap
• Worked with Apache2, VMWare, Regex, Drupal, Wordpress
• Familiar with Windows OS, Linux, Mac OS, DFC, DQL, Git and SVN
• Knowledge of Eclipse, PhoneGap, and Android OS
• Fluent in English (C2)
• Proficient in Cantonese Chinese (C1) & Icelandic (C1)
• Basic in Spanish (B1) , French (B1), Mandarin Chinese (B1), Hoipingese Chinese (A2), and Japanese (A1)

Related Activities

• Implemented an iOS app and web interface for a UC Davis longitudinal agricultural research study
• Designed and built a personal budget tracker application
• Worked on the acrylic structure for an OpenROV
• Projects.judyyfong.xyz

Publications

Datasets

• Hedström, S; Fong, J; Þórhallsdóttir, R.; Mollberg, D.; Guðmundsson, S.; Jónsson, Ó.; Þorsteinsdóttir, S.; Magnúsdóttir, E.; Gudnason, J. Samromur Unverified 22.07, OpenSLR, http://openslr.org/128/

• Pálsson, R.; Sigurðardóttir, H; Þórhallsdóttir, R; Borsky, M; Þorsteinsdóttir, H; Helgadóttir, I; Gudnason, J; Danielsson, H; Fong, J; Gunnarsson, Þ. 2022, Icelandic broadcast speech, CLARIN-IS, http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12537/193

• Fong, Judy Y; Helgadóttir, Inga Rún; Sigurðardóttir, Helga Svala; et al., 2022, RUV TV unknown speakers, CLARIN-IS, http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12537/191.

• Fong, Judy Y; Hedström, Staffan; Jónsson, Ólafur Helgi; et al., 2022, Spjallromur - Icelandic Conversational Speech 22.01, CLARIN-IS, http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12537/187.

• Hedström, Staffan; Fong, Judy Y; Þórhallsdóttir, Ragnheiður; et al., 2021, Samromur Queries 21.12, CLARIN-IS, http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12537/180.

• Helgadottir, Inga Run; Fong, Judy Yum; Gudnason, Jon; et al., 2020, RÚV TV data, CLARIN-IS, http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12537/93.

• Mollberg, David Erik; Jónsson, Ólafur Helgi; Þorsteinsdóttir, Sunneva; et al., 2021, Samromur 21.05, CLARIN-IS, http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12537/189.

• Cleaned up and submitted the Althingi dataset to LDC

Papers

• Fong, J.; Gunnarsson, Þ.; Þorsteinsdóttir S.; Örnólfsson, G.; and Guðnason, J. “An Open Source Web Reader for Under-Resourced Languages,” in proceedings of SIGUL 2022. Slides

• Helgadóttir, Inga R.; Nikulásdóttir, Anna B.; Borský, Michal; Fong, Judy Y.; Kjaran, Róbert; and Guðnason, Jón. “The Althingi ASR System,” in proceedings of Interspeech 2019. \ DOI: 10.21437/Interspeech.2019-1248

• Fong, J.; Borský, Michal; Helgadóttir, Inga R.; and Guðnason, Jón. "Manual post-editing of automatically transcribed speeches from the Icelandi parliament - Althingi," https://arxiv.org/abs/1807.11893.

• Modekurty, S.; Fong, J.; Cheng, H. “C-STEM Girls Computing and Robotics Leadership Camp,” presented at 2014 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition, Indianapolis, Indiana.
  DOI: 10.18260/1-2–20141